19.05.2011                      15.Ijar, 5771                      Tag 30 des Omer

Regierungskoalition:

Cabinet backtracks on anti-discrimination resolution following Haredi pressure

United Torah Judaism threatened to quit the coalition if the cabinet approved a resolution to address discrimination in Haredi schools.

The cabinet backtracked several weeks ago from issuing a resolution against ethnic discrimination in Haredi (ultra-Orthodox ) schools, after United Torah Judaism threatened to pull out of the coalition if it was approved.
The resolution was meant to be a first step, if only a declarative one, toward correcting the serious deficiencies in this matter, which were described in 57 pages of the state comptroller's Report released on Tuesday….